Now I know that these are called corbels, I shall take a photo of them at every opportunity. The ones on Mountgrove road are pleasantly arranged as single large features between each shop front, as opposed to different ones on each shop ...
Another sighting of iron ventilation grill above a shop window, as seen in Marylebone the other week ...
Mountgrove Road was once part of the small but mighty Borough of Stoke Newington (1901-1965) ...
Round the corner on Blackstock Road, inventive use of what was surely an iron hanger for pawnbroker's balls ...
A roof-garden that has seen better days, replete with flag ...
A pleasing pub sign, the letters made of multiple joined tiles ...
Blue walls ...
I have no idea what date this sign is ... the paint looks fresh but 'paperhanging' sounds fairly old-fashioned /// 1970s?
The sun casts an impressionist shadow of a rooftop on a nearby wall ...
A humdrum building, possibly once a pub, now all shops at ground level, distinguished most by this clumsy-looking date inscription ...
No idea why Churchill painted on Blackstock Road, although café adjoining this wall may be part of the reason ...
The bird is more pleasing to the eye (although not as good as the peacock at Angel) ...
Unusual sign, in that no postcode (suggests Victorian) and the 'Islington'. Also, odd use of full stops.
Finsbury Park Station ... struggling to recall why 'Great Northern Electrics' ... Wikipedia assures me this ' is the name of the suburban rail services run on the southern end of Britain's East Coast Main Line and associated branches.'
Another rooftop in need of some work, with inadvertent hanging garden ...
The George Robey, a famous music venue in the 1970s, much decayed when I played a gig here in 1994, now awaiting gentri-flat-ification. We shared a bill with 'Maniac Squat', an excellent but archetypal ska/OI! band whose main song was called 'F*CK OFF!'.
Absolutely mystifying arrangement of bricks on Seven Sisters Road.
Landlines, now verging on an anachronism, but, from the right angle, like marvellous webs in the sky ...
Typical Victorian decorative railing/gatepost ...
The face of fear (end of a shop sign, Holloway Road) ...
Once a grand entrance to a late-Victorian Department store. The shop exterior still stands, but the rest has been cut up into multiple modern premises.
Once a cinema, now a Wetherspoons ...
Fairly cheap-looking (and oddly placed in what looks like Edwardian block of flats) clock.
This building mystifies me ... corner location might suggest a pub, but the architecture and plaque suggests a house. Note the discrepancy on the roof, and the cream colouring on the left giving the impression of a sepia photograph of the original blurring into the present ...
Next door, at some point, someone at 215 Holloway Road thought they needed a painted house number on the second floor, just below the guttering.
Projecting iron support for sign (guest house?) on corner of Gillespie Road.
The beautiful tiling at Arsenal tube station ...
Then back home to Clissold park, and its finest residents ...
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